Any plans for auto-blocking?

[Dubont]

all that does is balance it out to were it doenst matter what shiel you have which i dont like. A scutum should block more and absorb more, i kite shield should be close to that. Round shields should increase evasion so you dodge more and attack power so you hit harder. Id like to see things like spiked shields for this purpose. Having a system like this could make having 2 glads in one party more worthwhile.

also smaller shields should increase critical hit rate.

how does the 11 system balance it so that it doesn't matter what shield you use? >.> You rarely saw a decent PLD walking around with a buckler. They always had kite shields are better. (Kite shields had balance block/dmg rates). For the "Block less" shields, PLDs wore gear that increased their block rate so that it rivaled that of bucklers, but with increased absorption.

[Physic]

We talked to shield master Matsui about the possibility of auto-block implementation and he said that they are going to be eliminating the "Guard" ability, which will lead to the shield block activating on its own in the future.

lol, soon the game will just play itself. not even the cost of pressing a button for getting hax defense anymore.

[Grim_Lion]

We talked to shield master Matsui about the possibility of auto-block implementation and he said that they are going to be eliminating the "Guard" ability, which will lead to the shield block activating on its own in the future.

GREAT NEWS!

[Shyd]

We talked to shield master Matsui about the possibility of auto-block implementation and he said that they are going to be eliminating the "Guard" ability, which will lead to the shield block activating on its own in the future.

Problem solved.

[Frein]

I imagine gladiators will be able to dual wield at some point, so I don't think stances or offensive shield types are necessarily needed. In any case, this is good news. Guard is not a reactionary ability, it is just a chore that needs to go.

[Rhomagus]

I disagree, especially after 1.18. I very much disliked random guard procs in XI, and the only guff I had with guard pre patch 1.18 is that it took time away from gaining TP. I like the idea of playing a defender, not an attacker with a shield.

Then again, I was against auto attack pre 1.18 as well, and how they implemented it into XIV was refreshing and wasn't quite the lull in combat that I was expecting. I'm still plenty busy looking for ways to pop Phalanx, Fracture, Jarring Strike, and Feint whilst participating in Battle Regimens. So while I'm uncomfortable from the outset of the news, I'm definitely not going to dismiss it as worthless backwards thinking.

[syntaxlies]

how does the 11 system balance it so that it doesn't matter what shield you use? >.> You rarely saw a decent PLD walking around with a buckler. They always had kite shields are better. (Kite shields had balance block/dmg rates). For the "Block less" shields, PLDs wore gear that increased their block rate so that it rivaled that of bucklers, but with increased absorption.

if shield A blocks 50percent of the time for 25 percent damage
and shield b blocks 25 percent of the time for 50 percent damage
shield a against 4 attacks that hit for 30hp and player has 100hp=2 blocks at 25 percent damage 60hp-25%=15hp blocked
shield b against the same 4 attacks = 1 block at 50%damage on a 30hp strike is 15hp

thats how.

[Frein]

if shield A blocks 50percent of the time for 25 percent damage
and shield b blocks 25 percent of the time for 50 percent damage
shield a against 4 attacks that hit for 30hp and player has 100hp=2 blocks at 25 percent damage 60hp-25%=15hp blocked
shield b against the same 4 attacks = 1 block at 50%damage on a 30hp strike is 15hp

thats how.

The actual values in FFXI were such that kite shields (size 3 out of 4) provided the best mitigation over time. The large tower shields blocked for more but the block rate was too far from kite shields.

[syntaxlies]

The actual values in FFXI were such that kite shields (size 3 out of 4) provided the best mitigation over time. The large tower shields blocked for more but the block rate was too far from kite shields.

i would like to see the shields designed for different play styles, like i said before. smaller shields evasion/attack bonus and large shields -evasion/+def and blocks, kite shields more in the middle to be an all purpose shield. thats me though we all have dif opinion.

[Reika]

I imagine gladiators will be able to dual wield at some point, so I don't think stances or offensive shield types are necessarily needed. In any case, this is good news. Guard is not a reactionary ability, it is just a chore that needs to go.

No, they wont actually...